Ghost Town Trails

State atlas · filed under WY

Ghost Towns of Wyoming

Wyoming's ghosts are coal and rail: Union Pacific mining towns along the mainline, oil camps of the 1920s, and South Pass gold country — plus homestead hamlets the wind still owns.

430 sites surveyed across Wyoming — 6 charted with full records so far, entered by year of settlement. The rest are awaiting verification.

Charted — click for the recordSurveyed — records pending

Survey note

The federal place-name archive records 430 vanished or historical sites in Wyoming — ghost towns, mining camps, townsites, and railroad stops. We chart them a few at a time, as the records can be verified. Every mark on this map is a place that once had a name.

The full survey ledger

Every vanished town the federal archive records in Wyoming — each with its own record page, verified and expanded over time.